Improve your driving instruction with...
A quick reference for driving instructors
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Learn how to conduct quality training and assessment.
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Find out almost everything you need to know and do to conduct efficient and productive lessons.
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Improve your teaching.
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Find out how to make the best use of your time with your students.
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Assess your performance.
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From the Introduction...
Many components go into good teaching: too many to remember when you are new to it. Even the experienced instructor can easily forget some of the basics, particularly when things get busy.
We designed this quick reference to help both new and experienced instructors stay on track and remain thorough. In this publication you will find a reminder for nearly every teaching task you are likely to do. In writing the information as reminders, we have assumed that you have had some instructor training: enough to know what the reminders mean.
A quick reference is not a book of rules. If you can find better ways to achieve your teaching goals, that's great. Material you will read here is simply a compilation of sound, and well recognised teaching practices reduced to their bare essentials.
Techniques and principles in A Quick Reference integrate with other resources you can buy on this site.
A quick reference is full of useful tips, such as this one...
Here are some examples of the powerful teaching tools in this booklet:
Draw vehicles in perspective
Drawing a situation in perspective will help your students understand what you are saying - much more than just talking about it.
Use commentary driving
Commentary driving is talking about an aspect of driving as you do it or simulate it. Commentaries are a powerful teaching tool because they help others in the vehicle know how that person is interpreting a situation.
Conduct formative assessment
Conduct formative assessment immediately after you have provided instruction and you think the student is doing all right. This lets you to test your teaching, reinforces correct performance and fixes incorrect performance before it starts to become a habit.
Conduct summative assessment
Conduct summative assessment at the end of training to check whether you have successfully taught a set of skills, or body of knowledge.
Use a management model to change drivers
If you provide training for people in an organisation, don't be a lone crusader. Look for ways that the organisation can change in order to help people learn and maintain appropriate behaviour. Use our management model as a source of ideas.
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